Farhana Yasmin: Although more or less everyone knows the Bengali meaning of the word lockdown, the people of Bengal have come closer to this word since last year.  This is perhaps the first time in the history of the world that the story of lockdown and getting closer to public life in this way. And undoubtedly the first in the history of Bengal.  This hot summer day, Ramadan fasting and threshing rice have made the life of the people with the word lockdown alone horrible.  However, the younger generation is suffering a little more from public life due to this horrible poison.  For example, since March 16, 2020, the young generation is still on holiday.  The work of people of any other profession was not stable during such a long vacation and is not yet.  Maybe it was step by step.  But they are not as wrapped up as the younger generation.

Whether the young generation will be the craftsmen to build the country in the future.  But they are the most locked in the lockdown.  Ever since the Corona epidemic hit Bengal, the young generation has started the Cold War.  Let`s find out about some of the cold wars of the young generation affected by the touchdown of lockdown:

1. Session-Jat: There are thousands of young students scattered all over Bangladesh.  For 13-14 months, these thousands of students have been constantly fighting their minds with a foreign and terrifying word called sessionjot.  Not only the students but also their parents are getting dazzled by this horrible word.  When will their children finish their studies and bloom in a heavenly garden called Sansar?  They are hoping for an answer to this question.  And when the children are reading this tag called sessionjot will be fascinated by their life at once.  Maybe one day everyone will be patient in the hope that it will end.

2.  Rooted life: After the session, looking at the troubled life of the youth, one can see how bound they are.  In the footsteps of the youth, on the twenty-first of February, in both the village and the city premises, the sound of reverence was heard in the streets.  This time the immortal Ekushey too, the young generation had to stay hidden like a game of hide and seek.  Only immortal twenty-one?  Every memorable and auspicious and historical day is always like a lifeless and rhythmless poem.  Because there is no opportunity for the young generation stuck in the lockdown to match the rhythm of life and rhythm.

3.  Mental Disaster: Lockdown air and strong liqueur bitter tea are exactly the same.  Except for a couple of exceptional ones, the rest can’t drink such bitter liqueur bitter tea.  Similarly, except for a couple of young people, no one else`s mental state in this long time.  Although a couple of Hategona live happily with their father`s money, most of the young people in Bengal are suffering from mental anguish.

4.  Relationship tension: The first thing that comes to our mind when it comes to relationships is family and blood ties.  But in addition to these relationships, there is another relationship of the soul.  The relationship we see between young people is basically a relationship of the soul.  In this long lockdown, the relationships of those souls are being torn apart.  As a result, a young lover is fighting with his feelings and real life, while a lover is fighting with his dreams and family pressures.  In this way, everyone is fighting with the mind and with the lockdown.  I don`t know when this nerve war will end!

5.  Uncertainty in career formation: The young generation is gradually losing their youthful energy by being trapped in four walls.  They were the lamp of their dreams based on the energy they wanted to build.  Many study as well as engage in various competitive activities and organizational work.  Which will help make their CV attractive.  From those jobs they are slipping into the abyss and falling without a career backbone.  Will this vertebrate body also end up in this third tau of lockdown?  This young man of Bengal is sitting under a branchless tree with a basket of this hopeless question.

6. Tensions over life and livelihood: Most of the university students in Bangladesh grew up in middle and lower class families.  The children of these middle and lower class families used to pay for their education as well as support the family through a paddle called tuition.  That paddle of the younger generation, plagued by a touch of frustration called lockdown.  Today all those young generations do not know how they will get back the speed of that paddle to run their family.

7. Origin of the obstacle to the development of talent: Although the nature of talent is given, the development of talent depends on regular care and attention.  From this horrible lockdown the importance of that care and care is fading.  Due to which the talent of the young generation is not developing but is slowly going into the folds of the loose sheet.

8. Addiction to the Internet world: Lockdown is directly destroying the younger generation through online touch.  Although a few people use the online and internet world properly, most of the children are getting addicted to the internet.  Which is causing some more problematic activities.  Such as: porn addiction, excessive Facebooking, mobile gaming.  In the midst of all this, they are showing reluctance to fulfill their moral education and responsibilities.

9.  Distrustful mentality: When a person gets seven days off from his busy schedule, he thinks that he has got seven months off.  So if a student gets 13-14 months off, only a student can realize how disturbed his state of mind can be.  The word touch is not always pleasant.  This time it was understood from the touch of lockdown. Because, at the touch of this lockdown, the young generation is slowly drowning in the untrustworthy and unreliable waters.

10.  Suicide: Above all, the suicide rate has risen at the highest rate in sympathy with the lockdown.  And this rate is also the highest among school, college and university students.  At the root of this phenomenon are frustration, instability, family stress, career stress and some personal issues.  And at the root of everything is the swallowing of the lockdown.

The young generation is becoming like a speechless and spineless body while fighting with the above reasons in its mind.  There is no need in that body.  That body has become a weed for society.  However, we are hopeful that one day we will be able to overcome all the fog caused by the touch of lockdown.  By hanging Corona on that day, the young generation will win and bring the smile of victory.

Author: Farhana Yasmin is a Student of Department of Sociology at Barisal University. She can be reached at farhana.soc.bu@gmail.com